About the Speaker

Anurag Wakhlu, CFA is currently an Adjunct Professor, FinTech & DeFi, at Bentley University in Massachusetts, managing Private Fixed Income Valuation for a large Asset Manager, and Advisor to several startups in Cybersecurity, Blockchain and financial ML/AI space. He brings a powerful combination of both, investment management as well as financial services technology experience, spanning 25 years. Recently, Anurag was the Global Business Director for Financial Services at Dassault Systèmes. He was heading the development of a financial macro Risk Prediction machine learning solution, in addition to Business Development, Product Marketing, and leading their blockchain business strategy.

Prior to Dassault Systèmes, Anurag was a Bond Strategist at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), helping develop investment strategy and manage risk. In addition, Anurag has held senior technology positions at SSGA, Fidelity Investments and Yantra (IBM). He has delivered strategic business value through global enterprise solutions and created sophisticated applications for Investment & Risk Analytics, Trading and Business Intelligence. Anurag has an MBA from Babson College in Massachusetts, and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) in Bombay, India, and is a CFA Institute Charter holder.